Family seeks justice in 2007 unsolved murder

One of three suspects in the July 11, 2007, slaying of Jacqueline Crazybull.Security Tape
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One of three suspects in the July 11, 2007, slaying of Jacqueline Crazybull.Security Tape
/ CPS

A family photo featuring murder victim Jacqueline Crazybull, 44, who was fatally stabbed on July 11, 2007, during the first of five random attacks that wounded four others.Family of victim
/ Family of victim

One of three suspects in the July 11, 2007, slaying of Jacqueline Crazybull.Security Tape
/ CPS

Crazybull, 44, was the first victim in an hour-long stabbing spree by a group of men on July 11, 2007.

In just one hour between 4 and 5 a.m. that day, five victims throughout the city were knifed by the group driving around attacking people.

Crazybull was at a bench on 17th Avenue and 11th Street S.W. when she was approached by the men. Police say the strangers started a conversation with the victim and then attacked her.

Crazybull was the only victim to die.

Police have since released photos of three suspects, saying they’ve learned the stabbings were done for “kicks.”

Investigators said they need more evidence. No arrests have been made.

This has been devastating for Crazybull’s loved ones, her sister said.

“I don’t want it just to disappear from people’s minds. I don’t know what else I can do,” Sandra Crazybull-O’Hara said.

“She deserves the dignity, she didn’t deserve to get killed and for the story to disappear, and for her life to not have any meaning.”

On Sunday at noon, as they have for the past five years, family, friends and supporters gathered in the Beltline. Accompanied by native drummers, they walked to the site where Crazybull was killed.

“We’re always wondering who would do this,” said Crazybull-O’Hara.

“We’re wondering what are her killers doing now?”

Crazybull, who had eight children, will never meet the half-dozen grandchildren they have now given her.

“She would have been a beautiful grandmother. We were not ready for that,” Crazybull-O’Hara said. “Our spirits were broken, our lives were interrupted in the most horrible way.”

The annual peace walk is a way for loved ones to keep the pressure on her killers, she said.

“The only thing I can keep doing is keeping this walk going. We want justice. Even if it’s 20 years, we’ll still be doing it.”

szickefoose@calgaryherald.com

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